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Published by: Gnomon Press (Paperback 1979)

Published by: Gnomon Press (Hardcover 1979)

 

Included poems:

The Hollow
Blue Ridge
Fear
Plankroad
Huckleberry Bald
Appalachian Trail
Mountain Bride
The Flying Snake
Lost Flower
Real and Ethereal
Galacker: The Galax Gatherer
Sport
Otis
Snowlight
Death Crown
Canning Time
Burnoff
When the Ambulance Came
Slop Bucket
Walnutry
Baptism of Fire
Bean Money
Huckleberries
Reuben's Cabin
Upstairs at the Country Store
Wallowing
Bricking the Church
Tear Bottle
Burning the Hornet's Nest
Milksick Pen
Smokehouse Dirt
Blackberries
Pigeon Loft
Mountain Page
Zircon Pit
Secret Pleasures
Den Tree
Devil's Courthouse
Trash
Praying Through

 

Related media:

Mountain Bride (poem)

 

Praise for Robert Morgan:

Gripping storytelling, indelible sense of time and place... Morgan turns the stories of prosaic lives into page-turners.

— The Raleigh News and Observer
. . .

[Robert Morgan] is a seasoned author whose prose reads like poetry and whose nonfiction reads like novels... His books teach and inspire. He gives the past, with all its heroes and villains, a new life, if not a new purpose.

— Southern Literary Review
. . .

Any new collection of poems by Robert Morgan is a gift... In the past thirty years I have learned a great deal from this man, who is exemplary as a poet, as a prose writer, and as a human being.

— Ted Kooser, former U.S. Poet Laureate
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